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Role of the US in WWI vs. WWII - Coggle Diagram
Role of the US in WWI vs. WWII
Similitudes
During the war
Enemy
Germany, Austria/Austria-Hungary
Japan only in WWII (Ally in WWI)
Allies
Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
Italy in WWI but not WWII
Neutrality at first
Woodrow Wilson didn't want to get involved but sold ammunition to Allies
Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to sell ammunition and help the British
Financing the war
Sold Liberty bonds
25 cent Liberty stamps to “help lick the Kaiser”
rationing programs
celebrities encouraged participation
Anti-German Propaganda programs by Committee on Public Information
"four minute men" gave speeches
pamphlets, plays, movies
Uncle Sam
Industrialization
factories produced a lot more products
20 million women replaced men in factories
Stores and factories converted into ammunition factories
idea of spreading democracy
Tension with Germany
WWI: tension since 1915: German U-boat fired without warning the American munition ship Lusitania
WWII: 1941 Germany intensified submarine attacks in the Atlantic. FDR: sent "shoot on sight" policy to the Navy
Relief for the Allies
US drafted its fresh men who gave relief to tired Allied troops
Millions
fled
to the US
Before the war
Financial crisis
Wilson, FDR and Truman were Democrats
After the war
US helped reconstruction
US won both wars
Germany occupied by Allied troops
Republic(s) in Germany
PTSD
Years of economic prosperity
Roaring 20's
Only WWI
Entering the war
British Intelligence interfered Zimmermann Telegram
offered Mexico Texas, Arizona and New Mexico if they won
meddling with US-Mexico relations
January 1917: the German government sent a coded telegram to Mexico’s government proposing a military alliance with Mexico
Treaty of Portsmouth 1904: ended fighting, recognized Japan’s territorial gain. Japan an ally during the war.
Warfare
Trench war
tanks, poisonous gas, not many airplanes, machine guns
Static war
Outcome
Germany had to pay repairs
Every country depended on US for reconstruction asking for loans that would lead to The Great Depression
The League of Nations to prevent other conflicts but US didn't join
Treaty of Versailles
Peace treaties with Wilson's 14 points
Self-determination of countries
Decrease armaments
Creation of the League of Nations
free trade
Only WWII
Entering the war
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941: Japan bombed naval base near Honolulu
Battles in the Philippines
against fascism and communism
Warfare
More submarines and tanks, encryption codes
nuclear power and missile
Outcome
Marshall Plan 1948 to help reconstruction in Europe
Controlled southern Germany and West Berlin (and part of Austria)
Yalta Conference to divide Germany
UN 1945
United Nations
successor of League of Nations but with US
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Black Power Movement
Second Wave Feminism
Ending the war
no trust in the Soviet Union
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military protection from Warsaw Pact
Cold War (1947-1989)
Cuban Missile Crisis
Atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Nurmberg trials for Nazis
Normandy Operation Overlord D-Day 6.6.1944 Success in pushing back German troops
Discovered and freed concentration camps in Germany, Jewish Holocaust by Germany
